“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“There is nothing so imperious as feebleness which feels itself supported by force.”
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"Aggression is Wrong" essay (1963) published by Rampart College.

Civil Disobedience (1849)
Context: The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war; is applauded by those whose own act and authority he disregards and sets at naught; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a moment.

“That force is to be opposed to nothing, but to unjust and unlawful force.”
Second Treatise of Government, Ch. XVIII, sec. 204
Two Treatises of Government (1689)
Context: To this I answer: That force is to be opposed to nothing, but to unjust and unlawful force. Whoever makes any opposition in any other case, draws on himself a just condemnation, both from God and man…

Letter to Ottoline Morrell, 17 December, 1920
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On Manners and Fashion
Essays on Education (1861)

“However, nothing turned out as Tchitchikoff had intended.”
Dead Souls (1842)
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy